Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lupu, Mihai (Editor), Mayer, Katja (Editor), Tait, John (Editor), Trippe, Anthony J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: The Information Retrieval Series, 29
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information storage and retrieval.; Text processing (Computer science).; Application software.; Commercial law.; Computer Science.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Document Preparation and Text Processing.; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.; Commercial Law.

Patents form an important knowledge resource –much technical information represented in patents is not represented in scientific literature – and at the same time they are important, and economically highly relevant, legal documents. Between 1998 and 2008, the number of patent applications filed yea...